11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ N 5 km/h
Humidity 65 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 35 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 48 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 42 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ NNE 4 km/h
Humidity 64 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 36 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ N 5 km/h
Humidity 53 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 21°
Wind↑ WSW 3 km/h
Humidity 32 %
Sulaymaniyah forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Sulaymaniyah climate: what a normal year looks like
Day and night differ most in September: 34 °C in the afternoon against 16 °C before dawn, a 18 °C swing.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 39 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.
From June to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 51% of the annual total; January by itself averages 136 mm.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (27 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
9 °C
0 °C
136 mm
Feb
11 °C
1 °C
135 mm
Mar
15 °C
4 °C
128 mm
Apr
21 °C
9 °C
97 mm
May
27 °C
13 °C
36 mm
Jun
34 °C
18 °C
2 mm
Jul
38 °C
22 °C
0 mm
Aug
39 °C
21 °C
0 mm
Sep
34 °C
16 °C
2 mm
Oct
27 °C
12 °C
44 mm
Nov
17 °C
5 °C
87 mm
Dec
11 °C
2 °C
112 mm
Whole year
24 °C
10 °C
780 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.56° N, 45.43° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Sulaymaniyah: pollution and pollen
3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.516µg/m³
PM1042µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Sulaymaniyah
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sulaymaniyah, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Sulaymaniyah yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Sulaymaniyah
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:15 Set 17:02
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Baghdad); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Sulaymaniyah
Curious about the weather in Sulaymaniyah on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Sulaymaniyah weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.
Expected range today: 16 °C to 21 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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